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Hans Rausing Lecture 2022 by Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
This year Lawrence M. Principe from Johns Hopkins University will give the Hans Rausing Lecture: "Theory, Practice, and Demonstration in Medieval Alchemy: John of Rupescissa’s Alchemical Preparations for the Antichrist"
Time: Monday, November 7, 6:15 p.m.
Place: Universitethuset, sal IX -
Hans Rausing Lecture 2021: Robert M. Brain, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
This year Robert M. Brain from University of British Columbia, Vancouver will give the Hans Rausing Lecture: "Rhythm as Anthropotechnics ca. 1900"
Time: Monday, October 18, 18:15
Place: Zoom Meeting: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/61300400177 -
Autumn 2020 – The Hans Rausing Lecture 2020 and Office seminars postponed.
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Follow-up in June 2020 for the Joint Uppsala-Florence PhD Seminar "Science and the Knowing Body"
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Video of the Rausing Lecture 2019 – Bruno Latour
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Joint PhD Seminar Uppsala-Florence: "Science and the Knowing Body"
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Staffan Müller-Wille resident at the Office April-July 2018
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Photo of participants at the international workshop "Making it Up"
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Professor Emeritus Tore Frängsmyr has died
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One open PhD position at the Office. Application deadline May 31, 2017.
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Hans Rausing Lecture 2016 - Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University
This year Professor Gianna Pomata from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore will give the Hans Rausing Lecture: "Epistemic Genres Across Cultures: Recipes and the Exchange of Medcical Knowledge between Early Modern China and Europe."
Place: Museum Gustavianum
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Workshop – From the Library to the Laboratory and Back Again
Most of us know science only through their textual or visual representations. Unfortunately the actual work of doing science remains largely obscure. The making of scientific facts certainly involves much more than reading, thinking and writing. To a large degree it requires meticulous physical experimentation within the material world. At this workshop we will reappraise experiment as a means of historical investigation.
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Hans Rausing Fellows 2016
The Office for History of Science welcomes their Hans Rausing Fellows 2016: Lawrence M. Principe, Drew Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (February and March 2016), and Staffan Müller-Wille, Professor of History of the Life Sciences at Exeter University & University of Lübeck (September until December, 2016).